Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:02:19 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Jia-Shiun Li <jiashiun@gmail.com>, Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Subject: Re: if_le unit number change? Message-ID: <200901151702.19829.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20081230172135.GA19046@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <1d6d20bc0811260656t101ddb0eu35296ac973c6ba10@mail.gmail.com> <200812041438.27992.jhb@freebsd.org> <20081230172135.GA19046@dragon.NUXI.org>
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On Tuesday 30 December 2008 12:21:35 pm David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 02:38:27PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > I tend to trim my /boot/device.hints to remove hints for devices that > > aren't in my machines. However, with 8.0, if you leave the bogus hints > > around you won't be hurt and the device will stay as 'le1' so long as > > you don't remove the 'le0' hints, so if you never edit your > > /boot/device.hints it will just be called le1 forever. > > I dare say 99% of folks don't touch /boot/device.hints - and given this > is somewhat of a regression for VMware using folks (and they cannot share > /etc/rc.conf any longer), what should we do? > > 1. Comment out the hint - figuring it isn't really needed in 8.0? It might be worth it to pair down the default device.hints a good bit to only list PnPBIOS type devices (e.g. sio/uart, ppc, syscons, psm, atkbd) and not list ISA cards. > 2. Hack things so that 'le' is treated as before with the trip thru > acpi(4)? That basically requires backing out the entire patch. One of the fundamental changes that the entire change relies on is that hints now reserve device names. -- John Baldwin
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